Travel Books

What Travel-Writer Personality Are You?

Date: January 28th, 2008 |

For those of you who haven’t seen this already, Rucksack Wanderer Tim Patterson over at Brave New Traveler has come up with 6 most original travel-writer personalities:
-The Intrepid Monk
-The Epic Adventurer
-The Naked Introvert
-The Walking Party
-The Public Relations Professional
-The Guidebook Writer
Read and and have a giggle over the descriptions, he plays with numerous interesting characteristics of [read more]

Upcoming Guidebook Writing Boot Camps

Date: October 11th, 2007 |

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Viva Travel Guide Books is holding a couple of week-long guidebook/travel writing crash courses over the next few months. They’re looking to train a select group of writers to be travel-writers; if you get chosen to part of the training, your internship will be to get out there and write a section of one of [read more]

Free New eBook: Comprehensive Travel-Writing Tips

Date: September 21st, 2007 |

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“If you are currently scribbling for free or can’t seem to move on from writing low paid SEO articles, this book will put you on the write track…”
And also if “…you are feeling out-of-the-loop and unqualified, or a ‘wannabe’ accused of being personally responsible for bringing down the level of the travel industry by supporting [read more]

Best Travel Books Of All Time

Date: September 3rd, 2007 |

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Condé Nast Traveler has just come out with a list of 86 Best Travel Books Of All Time, and I am absolutely ashamed and embarrassed to admit that I have read none of them (NONE OF THEM!!), and was only familiar with a handful.
*Sigh*
Condé Nast Traveler asked 45 of it’s favorite writers to come up [read more]

Write for Lonely Planet…

Date: August 9th, 2007 |

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…on FACEBOOK.
Yes, oh my goodness - everyones on it! It seems to be invading the Internet by becoming this super informative portal where you can interact with anyone and everyone you’ve wanted to. I wonder how long this fad will last.
Anyway, coming to the point: I might have caught on to this LP Facebook group [read more]

Quito Guidebook Writing Bootcamp - Change In Date

Date: October 18th, 2007 |

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We posted about Viva’s travel-guidebook-writing bootcamp last week; we’ve been notified of a date change.
Instead of November 19-23, the Quito Bootcamp will be from November 26-30, 2007.
For more info, check out orig [read more]

Essay Reading:Revelations From The Road

Date: September 28th, 2007 |

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Celebrating its 7th anniversary, Feature Well (an international syndication) is holding an essay reading session called ‘Going Places: Revelations from the Road,’ where renowned writers will read their stories about life-changing trips.
When:
8 p.m. on Tuesday, October 9th
Where:
Rapture Café & Books, 200 Avenue A (between 12th & 13th Streets, New York City)
Tel: 212-228-1177.
Journalists reading:
Tom [read more]

Pico Iyer: Breaking The Rules Of Travel Writing

Date: September 3rd, 2007 |

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One of the most respected and unconventional writers in the travel-industry — Pico Iyer — has just published his 9 Commandments of Travel Writing on Condé Nast Traveler.
As you will see, they are not a typical set of rules you expect to read from an article like this.
In summary he says:
-A travel book is a [read more]

Lonely Planet’s Pick & Mix

Date: August 24th, 2007 |

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Guidebooks in PDF format have been around for awhile and I’ve never found them much of use. I have a couple of guides from various publishers stuck in a folder somewhere on my computer that I never go into. But now Lonely Planet has announced that they have Pick & Mix chapters availiable for [read more]

Interview with Mike Gerrard

Date: July 17th, 2007 |

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Britan’s Mike Gerrard is one of the world’s most prolific guidebook writers and has been one of the lucky few to have a steady career in travel writing. He was kind enough to grant Written Road an interview:
Written Road: How did you first become involved in travel writing?
Mike Gerrard: I had to go get my [read more]